[Hidden-tech] Comcast problems?

[Jonathan Dill]

If you have an internet domain and your domain provider has decent 
e-mail services, you are MUCH better off using their e-mail servers 
directly if that is possible.  To be honest I think it is a BAD idea to 
forward your e-mail to Comcast, AOL, Verizon (and several other similar 
providers) because they do not handle forwarded e-mail correctly, they 
like to "shoot the messenger" so to speak, they will blame the service 
that is merely forwarding your e-mail instead of looking at where the 
e-mail actually originated.

If you must use your Comcast e-mail account for some reason, see if the 
service that forwards your e-mail can "quarantine" spam so that it 
doesn't get forwarded to Comcast, but you will have to periodically 
check the quarantine.  Or you could try to find a good third-party 
e-mail provider that doesn't have silly practices for filtering spam.  
If you have a web site, you may already be entitled to a number of 
e-mail accounts that go with that service, that may be worth looking 
into as well.

Personally, I use Dreamhost because I have web hosting with them, and 
have amped up their SpamAssassin filtering with some rules of my own--I 
much prefer to go ahead and receive the spam and let Thunderbird sort it 
out based on the SpamAssassin tags.  The downside is that Dreamhost is 
in California, so every once in awhile I have connectivity problems, you 
may well find something better that is local.  I don't have any direct 
experience with Crocker, but Matthew Crocker sounds like a very 
competent guy, so I would expect their services to be good without any 
silly blocking practices.

Jonathan